cognizance
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Bedi said Indian authorities did not take cognizance of the reported presence of a Chinese spy ship in the region and went ahead with the test.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2022
“No,” Rawitsch said, laughing, “there was just no cognizance of that. I considered myself to be an educator.”
From Slate • Nov. 17, 2021
I probably would have been involved in these liberation movements and had no cognizance at all that being nurtured in its bosom was a force of triumphal reaction.
From Salon • Jan. 25, 2021
Still, an inchoate anxiety lurked behind the mania, a fleeting cognizance that for all their demands of more, nothing could ever match this.
From New York Times • Oct. 27, 2020
“If you’ve anything to say, you can come to the squire’s and make cognizance of the prisoner.”
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
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